Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita

savingholmes said:

Well done on the tip run and decluttering. I don't know where you find the energy for the PC but they need good people so well done you.

I found DKW's book really good on decluttering - particularly listening to it on audible. She helped me make the final push with my house to get it sale ready. I listened while doing to help motivate myself. I think I also used pictures in my head of my ideal holiday cottage scenario to try and get the amount of stuff I retained visibly at least to a holiday cottage level. I'm getting my cleaner to help with the continued thinning out - and in a milestone for me didn't check what she chucked last week.

Thank you for the positive feedback 😊 I have a meeting tonight, but feel I might be pushing my luck as I have a counselling session after work, get home, eat (Mr KK is cooking tonight thank goodness), out the door for the meeting at the remote location (could be quite a tetchy one tonight as the Chair and the Clerk are resigning) and then back home to prep breakfast, lunch, snacks and shower before bed! I hope I survive!!

I will look for that book - I’m always a hard copy kinda girl - can’t be doing with listening to things, always want to do something at the same time and then find I have missed whole chunks! 

KK

KajiKita

LadyWithAPlan said:

Well done on the decluttering! 

I love those SS shows where they put all your stuff in a warehouse ! 

I am away on an unexpected but fun business trip so only have a small suitcase .. amazing how I manage without loads of stuff

It’s very telling when that happens! 😉😊
Another thing I have gleaned from the SS shows is that your behaviour around possessions is inevitably learned from your parents. My mother is a full on hoarder ….. so I’m not doing as badly as I think I am when I compare myself to what I grew up with! 

KK 

South_coast

KajiKita said:
....can’t be doing with listening to things, always want to do something at the same time and then find I have missed whole chunks! 

I would be the same at home, I would find it too odd to be sat still just listening. I mean, do I keep my eyes open and wandering around, do I just glaze over, do I close them instead, etc etc....

Instead, I listen to podcasts in the car. I do miss bits sometimes if I'm concentrating on a manoeuvre/concentrating on someone else's bad driving/concentrating on finding my way, but mostly I'm a captive audience and I take a lot in in what would otherwise be unproductive time

savingholmes

I used my phone and just carried it with me in a pocket while decluttering with her voice nattering away encouraging me to let go of more. Totally relate to inherited traits related to hoarding!

KajiKita

Counselling session today after work covered a lot of ground but got bogged down on my aunt, which was kind of inevitable I suppose. 

My car exhaust then detatched itself just as I was heading home … unfortunately at just the right angle to potentially rip the entire bottom of the car off. 🙄 The AA man patched it up and I got home, but I am under *strict* instructions to take it straight to a garage tomorrow morning!! 

I have a busy and complicated day tomorrow …. Sigh …

After getting home and bolting down the food Mr KK had prepped for me, headed out to the parish council meeting. I have expressed an interest in being the Clerk but the new Chairman seems to be very grateful that I have agreed to stay on as vice chair (not really sure why 🤷‍♀️) so I might stick with that. 

Very tired now.

KK

savingholmes

Sorry about the car. Sounds another full on day. Be kind to you along the way.

beanielou

Boo to the car 

KajiKita

beanielou said:

Boo to the car 

savingholmes said:

Sorry about the car. Sounds another full on day. Be kind to you along the way.

Thanks both x

@savingholmes, I was quite conscious of how stressy all of this could get …. So I have consciously let myself off things tonight and I am not worrying about what is meant to be happening tomorrow until tomorrow.

KK

skint_spice

Hope the car repair isn’t too expensive!

I usually listen to podcasts when driving but haven’t driven any distance for ages so I will need to get used to listening at home. I thought it might be good for doing something crafty as I wouldn’t need to look at the screen. 

KajiKita

I have a new back and mid box (the back box literally crumbled to pieces as he took it off!) and am £177 lighter - nowhere near as bad as it might have been. 

I had to wait at the exhaust place until the parts arrived, so they let me use a spare office to conduct an interview I had planned this morning! It went well and I have booked him in for second stage interview next Monday 😊 Got to work just before lunch. 

Left on time after a busy afternoon and then had a call with a recruiter about another role for me at a site 20 minutes less commute away, easier roads and with the option to work from home two days per week. It would mean a drop in salary though. 

Absolutely shattered now. I have no great ambitions to do anything much more this evening!

Kk